[1] As of Autumn 2021, she was appointed inaugural Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair of Women's History at St John's College, University of Oxford.

At Virginia, she studied with Paul Gaston, Joseph Miller, Arnold Rampersad, Vivian Gordon, Ray Nelson and Barry Gaspar.

Stevenson began her edition of The Journals of Charlotte Forten Grimke while in this program, and this work became part of the Schomburg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers.

She continued in the Yale Ph.D. program in American history; she studied with John Blassingame, David Brion Davis, Nancy Cott, and Edmund S. Morgan.

"[8] The Library Journal review states that: "Stevenson skillfully combines the depth of a scholarly work with the rich details of a tragic novel.

"[9] Contested Murder was awarded the Organization of American Historian's 2014 James A. Rawley Prize for the best book on the history of race relations in the U.S.[10] and Women's eNews honored it with the 2015 Ida B.

[16] In October 2021, Stevenson was nominated to serve as a member of the newly formed Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.